Switzerland

Question 1

The most cultivated white grape variety in Switzerland is (blank)

Answer 1

Chasselas.

Question 2

What does Chasselas taste like?

Answer 2

An unexciting variety elsewhere, Chasselas can produce refined, mineral-driven wines in the moderate climate of Switzerland’s valleys.

Question 3

What are the other main white grapes of Switzerland?

Answer 3

Müller-Thurgau, Chardonnay, and Sylvaner, known locally as Johannisberg, are also widespread.

Question 4

What are the other main red grapes of Switzerland?

Answer 4

Among the red varieties, Pinot Noir, Gamay, and Merlot are commonly encountered.

Question 5

What is the most important canton in Switzerland?

Answer 5

Valais

Question 6

Valais’s vineyards are clustered around what river?

Answer 6

The Rhone River

Question 7

Valais is also the (blank) winegrowing region in Switzerland.

Answer 7

driest

Question 8

What are the main grapes grown in Valais?

Answer 8

Fendant (Chasselas) and Dôle, a blend of Pinot Noir and Gamay

Question 9

What is Chasselas known in Vaud?

Answer 9

Dorin

Question 10

Valais is to the ________ of Lake Geneva.

Answer 10

East

Question 11

True or False: Switzerland is a member of the European Union and follows EU wine regulations.

Answer 11

False

Question 12

What is the most planted white grape in Switzerland?

Answer 12

Chasselas

Question 13

Dôle is a common blend in Switzerland that uses which two varieties as the majority of the blend?

Answer 13

Pinot Noir and Gamay

Question 14

Switzerland’s climate can be best generalized as ________.

Answer 14

Cool

Question 15

Swiss Blanc des Blancs is typically produced from which grape?

Answer 15

Chasselas

Question 16

The five major wine producing Cantons are Geneva, Neuchâtel, Ticino, Valais, and (blank)

Answer 16

Vaud

Question 17

What is the term for a Swiss autonomous region, similar to an autonomía in Spain or a province in Canada?

Answer 17

Canton

Question 18

True or False: Wine laws are set by each individual canton, not by a national governing body.

Answer 18

True

Question 19

In Vaud AOC wines, what percentage of grapes must come from the stated AOC?

Answer 19

90%

Question 20

What is the easternmost grand cru of Valais?

Answer 20

Salquenen

Question 21

True or False: Salvagnin is similar in style to Dôle.

Answer 21

True

Question 22

The grape Amigne reaches its highest quality in which Grand Cru of Valais?

Answer 22

Vétroz

Question 23

Ermitage is a synonym for what grape in the Valais?

Answer 23

Marsanne

Question 24

Match the synonym for Chasselas to the region it is used in.

Dorin
Perlan
Fendant

Answer 24

Dorin - Bonvillars
Perlan - Mandement
Fendant - Vétroz

Question 25

Heida is a synonym for which grape?

Answer 25

Savagnin

Question 26

Which of the following cantons is NOT French speaking?

Answer 26

Ticino

Question 27

Ticino's sub-regions of Sopraceneri and Sottoceneri are loosely translated to being "north of" and "south of" what geographic feature?

Answer 27

Mt. Ceneri

Question 28

Three Lakes is used as a synonym for which canton?

Answer 28

Neuchâtel

Question 29

True or False: Swiss wine merchants were allowed to blend imported wine into their own until 2006.

Answer 29

True

Question 30

In Vaud AOC wines, what percentage of grapes must come from the stated AOC?

Answer 30

90%

Question 31

Côtes de l'Orbe, Chablais, and Bonvillars are regional AOCs in which canton?

Answer 31

Vaud

Question 32

Lake Bodensee separates Switzerland from which other two major wine producing regions?

Answer 32

Württemberg and Baden

Question 33

What is Vin des Glacier?

Answer 33

Rèze - is the grape (and one of the oldest indigenous grapes of Swiztlerland) Style - maderized wine stored in high altitude soleras

Question 34

In 2010, the Vaud appellation system was simplified, bracketing the former 26 village AOCs into six regional AOCs: What are they?

Answer 34

Côtes de l'Orbe, Bonvillars, Vully (by lake Neuchatel) La Côte, Lavaux, Chablais (by Lake Geneva)

Question 35

What are the crossings of Salvagnin?

Answer 35

Gamaret and Garanoir

Question 36

(Blank), a small canton on the southwestern shore of Lake Geneva, contains the country’s densest plantings. Here Chasselas and Gamay dominate, though Chardonnay and Pinot Noir are gaining notoriety.

Answer 36

Geneva

Question 37

What grapes dominate in Geneva?

Answer 37

Chasselas and Gamay dominate, though Chardonnay and Pinot Noir are gaining notoriety.

Question 38

What are all the synonyms of Chasselas?

Answer 38

Dorin Perlan Fendant